in reply to s-Operator in Perl 5.8.0

This is fixed in 5.8.1 and later.

Dave.

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Re^2: s-Operator in Perl 5.8.0
by bronto (Priest) on Sep 01, 2004 at 08:45 UTC

    Dave, please could you update your node with a small excerpt from the relevant documentation?

    Thanks

    Ciao!
    --bronto

    The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
    --John M. Dlugosz
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      Here are some related references in the perlbug database: [perl #17605], [perl #19545], [perl #23227].

      The first of those includes the analysis and fix: at a certain point a bug was introduced that broke any attempt to execute an empty sub, via eval or otherwise. In the worst cases this would cause a coredump.

      Hugo

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      Er, there is no relevant documentation

      Dave.

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